Feeding attachment for mangles.



6w 7M.- i /M m 019M W PATENTED FEB. 12, 1907. J. H. SLACK & W. W. RILEY.

FEEDING ATTACHMENT FOR MANGLES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 5, I906.

- seecification.

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.ioiiN H. sLAcK, or CINCINNATI, AND WATKIN W RILEr. oE NosWoon, orno, ASSIGNORS TO THE AMERICAN LAUNDRY MACHINERY COMPANY, or NORWOOD, orno, A CORPQRATION,

FEEDING AITACHMENT FOR MANeLEs.

Specification of Letters Patent. Eatented Feb. 12, 1907.

Application filed February 5,1906. Serial in. 299,522.

To all whom it may concern. table, from which view and from Figs. 3 and Be it known that we, JOHN H. SLACK and 4 it will .be seen that 17 represents a series of VVATKI N W. RIL Y, citizens of the United belts passing around the roller 15 and over States, residing at Cincinnati and Norwood, the front end of the feed-table 18. The respectively, in the county of Hamilton and roller 14 has a driving contact with the belts State of Ohio, have invented certain new and i 17 and insures a uniform feed thereof. Prouseful Improvements in Fcedin Attachjecting forwardly and upwardly from the ments forMangles, of which the following is a front end 18 of the feed-table is a series of g I guiding-fingers 19. (See Fig. 5.) These finour invention relates to an improvement in gers lie intermediate of thebelts, so as to sepalaundry machinery of that particular class to rate them, and they extend well up between which mangles belong. the converging peripheries of the drum 1 and The object of the, invention is to produce the first of the rollers 2. As a result of this an improved feed attachment which will arrangement the articles to be handled by regularly and smoothly deliver the goods into this machine are uniformly fed into position the machine proper wi hout danger of dam where the advancing edge of the article will age to the goods be caught between one of the rollers 2 and The features of the invention are more I the drum .1. The fingers not only deliver the fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which I Figure 1 is an end view ofthe mangle,

tion for bein gripped by the mangle, but they effectual y prevent any tendency of the article or a portion of the advancing edge thereof to follow the belts where they detour downward over the front end of the feedtable 18 for the reason that these fingers bridge the ap between the end of the feedtable and t e meeting surfaces of the drum and roller.

H aving described our invention, we claim In a device of the class described, a large drum and a coacting roller, a feed-table havshowing the attachment. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section showing the relative positions of the parts. Fig. 3 is a detailed elevation, partly in section, showing the feedrollers. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the feed table and belts. Fig. 5 is a detailed secl tional View of oneof the feeding-lingers.

- 1 represents the ordinary hollow drum or cylinder of a mangle, and 2 represents 00- operating rollers peripherally contacting the drum. y

In Fig. 1 only the entry or receiving end of the apparatus is shown. v

3 represents the driving-pulley on shaft 4,- having the worm 5, driving a gear 6 on shaft set of transmissiongears, V large gear 8 on the drum and drives the same. Qre resents a s rocketwheel also" fixed to thee aft 7, whic drives shaft 11 by. means of sprocket-chain 12. Shaft 11 is provided with belt-feeding roller 15.

14 represents a cooperating roller driven 1 from shaft 11 bymeans of. the intermeshing gears 13 16. A (See Fig. 3'.)

Fig. 2 shows a sectional view of the feedi from its'front end into position roller and drum, a driving-roller at the rear end of the feeding-table, a series of feed-belts passed around the said driving-roll and feedtable, and passing between the fingers at the front end of the table, a fiictio'n roller contacting the belts and driving-roller, and means for imparting rotation to .the friction;- roller, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have set our hands.

hereunto JOHN H. SLACK. WATKIN W. RILEY.

Witnesses:

OLIVER. B. KAISER, Luisa BECK;

articles uniformly and smoothly to this posil ing a series of acute-anglefingers projectewt between the 

